SS Justicia was a British troop ship that was launched in Ireland in 1914 and sunk off County Donegal in 1918. She was designed and launched as the transatlantic liner Statendam, a new flagship for the Holland America Line (NASM), but the outbreak of First World War delayed her completion. In 1915, NASM agreed to let the United Kingdom acquire her and have her completed as a troop ship. The ship was completed in 1917 and renamed Justicia, with the intention that Cunard Line would crew and operate her. However, Cunard was unable to raise a crew for her, so the Shipping Controller appointed White Star Line to manage her. Justicia entered service in April 1917, carrying troops from North America to Europe. She escaped a U-boat attack in January 1918, but sank that July off the coast of Ireland after two U-boats hit her with a total of six torpedoes. The ship was longer and broader than NASM's then flagship, the , which Harland & Wolff had completed in 1908. Statendam would have been by far the largest NASM had yet owned. Only HAPAG's , White Star Line's and Cunard's , and were larger. As it was, Justicia she became the second largest ship sunk by enemy action in the First World War. The only one larger than Justicia was . Justicia shared the same hybrid propulsion system as several other H&W liners of her era including and . However, she was a unique ship with no sister. Justicias wreck is in the territorial waters of the Republic of Ireland and protected by Irish law. Design NASM and H&W planned Statendam to be a modern ship with berths for 800 passengers in first class, 600 in second and 2,030 in third, with a crew of 600. The first class saloon was to be high, making it the largest of its type on an ocean liner of its era. Décor was to be modern, in contrast with the historicist styles then commonly favoured by British and German shipping lines. As a troop ship, Justicia was reconfigured to carry 4,000 or 5,000 men, but in practice this was sometimes greatly exceeded. Her holds had capacity for 15,000 tonnes of cargo. Her registered length was , her beam was and her depth was . Her tonnages were and . Justicia was one of a series of H&W steamships that were propelled by